Shahab al-Muhajir

Sanaullah Ghafari (; born October 28, 1994), better known under his nom de guerre, Shahab al-Muhajir is an Afghan terrorist, serving as the Emir of the Islamic State's Khorasan Province since 2020. Early life Ghafari was born to a family of merchants near the Shakardara district of Kabul, his family reportedly migrated from India to Afghanistan. He received religious education from the Ghaffari Madrassa in Kabul, and obtained an engineering degree at Kabul University. He worked as a sub-contractor of a security company and frequented Bagram Airfield. He was a special guard of then First Vice Presidents Abdul Rashid Dostum and Amrullah Saleh, and had a license to transfer weapons since 2017. Militant career He reportedly joined the Haqqani network between 2010 and 2012, and became a mid-level operative until his defection in 2015. The Taliban denies that Ghafari was a member of the Haqqani network.